Category: Mediation Video

When you go through the mediation process, you have an individual, the mediator, who has been trained in that process. The job of the mediator is to help you come to an agreement. In other words, as you discuss the different items, whether it be child support or custody, you and your spouse come to…

Generally speaking, mediation will be less expensive than a litigated divorce or a collaborative divorce. The difference is you are only paying for one professional, the mediator, instead of two attorneys. Generally speaking, it will wind up costing less.

The purpose of mediation is to bring you and your spouse to a point where you wind up with a settlement agreement. The point of that settlement agreement is to be able to live separate and apart under a set of circumstances regarding custody, asset division, and more. Once you have that settlement agreement, you…

One of the things that mediation and collaborative divorce both use are a panel of neutral professionals. Neutral professionals are neutral financial advisers, neutral child specialists, and neutral divorce coaches. The divorce coach helps deal with the children who perhaps don’t know how to understand what’s going on. The neutral financial advisor is able to…

Some of the benefits are the parties are less angry after they get through the process. When people engage in the mediation process, the husband and wife are coming to an accord or an agreement at the help of the mediator. There is no winner or loser. Because of that, it’s generally less difficult on…

In my practice and the way that I was taught mediation, I can only meet with both parties together. I can never meet with either party individually unless it’s requested and the other party agrees to it. For the most part, I see both parties together and don’t correspond or speak with one party without…

When prospective clients come in to ask me whether they can have a mediated divorce even if they don’t get along, I explain to them that, yes, they can have a mediated divorce. The reason that it’s possible is that it is the mediator’s job to bring the people together and have them reach an…

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